Subbs sounds vaguely surprised. I am sure the coins did not belong to the couple, so why would the real owner simply accept the loss after they have been recovered. Possession really does not mean ownership, no matter how often the cliche is trotted out

HMS_Blinkin:Marmilman: Wow. The comments in that article are weapons grade retarded.

It's pj media, what did you expect?

Certainly not this:"Every day the Federal Government steals money from those working and gives it to those who don't and even now they are asking illegal Democrats in Mexico to jump the fence and join in the rape of the United States Cornucopia for free, only their new votes are wanted. It's getting time to water the tree of liberty. "

Or how about more greatest hits from Obama's time machine?"What if I don't believe the Federal Government? They're making this up, to try to swindle these poor saps who were dumb enough to brag about it. First, they had to pay taxes on material they found on the property they bought, which should at most be capital gains. Now, suddenly the government LOST the money! "

Or whatever the fark this is:"Anyone who comes into a genuine windfall without the knowledge of the government, and who publicizes it is a living, breathing example of Darwinism in action. This is not our government. It is not our friend. It is not under the control of citizens. It is not held to either the law or the Constitution. If you have any wealth, tangible goods the government might take an interest in, or are not connected with those in power and paying guanxi or blat [блат]; anything you have that you do not want to be confiscated needs to be hidden away and/or removed to another part of the world where the US government cannot reach it. Think a Chinese peasant reacting when there are Mongol horses stirring up dust on the horizon. Think a Jew in Europe during the pogroms."

Flint Ironstag:That's probably the route I'd have gone down as well. Or at least have kept half the hoard secret when I went public with the other half.

That would have been a mistake. Once the gold is out there experts would be all over it with a fine toothed comb. It wouldn't take long before someone added it up and asked where the other 5 million was.

I suppose you could have kept all the non-1899 minted coins. But even then, you'd definitely be under close scrutiny once you outed the hoard in the first place, and I doubt you'd be able to sell them without sending up a flag somewhere. Most likely with the IRS.

It's got to be all or nothing. Still, these guys will still get $2.5 million they didn't have before, and that's a decent jackpot by anyone's standards.

Step 1: move said treasure out of USA to a country known for protecting it's banking customers (you can afford it now)Step 2: move your family and assets out of the USA to a country where you can live like emperors till the day you die (that are unlikely to cooperate with US authoritiesStep 3: obtain citizenship in new country, and renounce US citizenshipStep 4: with the loudest voice you can muster (no posting on the net) say:

Next up: Uncle Sam takes all the coins, then charges them interest for the period of time the treasure was buried on their property. Or former property...the government will want that too, under civil forfeiture laws, given its use in the commission of a felony.

As a general rule, if a website's ads are telling you to buy gold because gold's price never falls even after the price of gold tanked in 2012 and 2013, it's because they think you're an idiot who will believe anything they tell you.

For example: Democrats are the real racists in American politics. That's what I have you farkied as.

Melt it down. Then you just have a load of gold that cannot be traced back to an owner. Turn it into nuggets. Throw the gold onto the ground molten to mae nuggets and say you found the nuggets like that to the guy who is buying it without any questions...

Once you have the cash in your hand and can afford a good lawyer THEN say "Look at MEEEEEEE! I`M AN ATTENTION WHORE!!!".